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52 Ancestors – Elizabeth Norton #11

Lizzie Norton Autograph book copy 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03XQi5toQg

This is my way of sharing an autograph book that belonged to my great great grandmother’s sister Elizabeth Norton. Elizabeth was born in 1862 in Quebec City to parents Richard Lee Norton and Hannah Pozer Jeffrey.

Elizabeth spent her life in Quebec City, she married James O’Grady in 1891 and although she had 3 children she left no descendants. Elizabeth passed away in 1897 at the age of 34, and none of her children lived past infancy. Her sister kept and treasured her autograph book and it has passed down through the family. I have been wanting to find a way to share this book and came up with the idea of putting it into a video. Please take some time to view it, I think you may like it!

The album contains the signatures of –

Tess
May H.
Odile Jeffery
Blanche Jeffery
Victor P. Simpson
R J Norton (Richard Jeffery Norton – brother)
Carrie Norton (sister)
Ida Crawford
J. O. G. – (future husband James O’Grady)
N. G. Fellows
Mrs. Fellows
Addie Higgins (Adelaide Higgins)
Emmy Higgins (Emily Higgins)
G. PLante
Blanche Jeffery (cousin)
Odile Jeffery (cousin)
Susie Mathews
Granny Romeril
E. Dyers
Willie Fountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03XQi5toQg

 

 


Comments

8 responses to “52 Ancestors – Elizabeth Norton #11”

  1. Very well done. You have given me a few ideas regarding a few items I have.

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  3. […] joined the #52 Ancestor challenge that Amy Crow started, but I am behind because I was working on Elizabeth Norton’s autograph book post and that took some […]

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  4. Hi,

    I want to let you know that your blog is listed in today’s Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/05/follow-friday-fab-finds-for-may-2-2014.html

    Have a fantastic weekend!

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    1. That’s great – thank you Jana!

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  5. […] friends to write on the beautifully decorated pages. Watch and listen on Patricia’s blog, My Genealogy Life: Ancestor Hunter, how she brought the book and autographs to life. Perhaps you will even recognize a […]

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  6. Patricia,
    What a clever way to bring the autograph book ‘to life’. Loved recognizing some of the voices in the video!

    Cheers,
    Maureen

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  7. […] boys, and two girls. Alfred the youngest son died at the age of eight of Arthritis and her daughter Elizabeth succumbed to the flu at the age of […]

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